Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:02:45 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chop off end of file Message-ID: <20050626000245.GC38082@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050626015255.D15610@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20050626015255.D15610@maren.thelosingend.net>
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:57:33AM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
>
> I have a ~70GB, of which the last ~50GB is garbage. I know exactly at what
> byte I want to cut the file, but I do not have enough free diskspace to do
> a
>
> dd if=orig of=pre bs=... count=....
>
>
> Is it possible to just chop off the end of a file, without making a copy
> of its beginning?
truncate(1) is your friend.
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